Saturday, May 30, 2026

Per Eklund studying Georgia’s election campaign

One of the intervieews for Per Eklund's new report is Giorgi Targamadze, leader of the Christian Democrats.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Giorgi Targamadze (pictured) is one of the sources for a new report former EU Ambassador to Georgia Per Eklund is writing about the election environment ahead of the parliamentary elections in October.

Eklund met with the Christian Democrats parliamentary

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Anger in Tbilisi over reasons for deadly flood

The day after his hometown Tbilisi was struck by a natural disaster, President Mikheil Saakashvili went to Slovenia to watch a football match. Local residents say the government should have done more to prevent what happened. (Screenshot from Eurosport.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Opposition representatives in Georgia say the flood that took five lives Sunday could have been prevented.

The discussion led to a street scuffle between a district governor and an opposition party representative.

Besik Gazdeliani, Deputy Governor

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Georgian agency denies having misinformed about flood

A report went out from Georgia's Agency for Emergency Situations that a river had broken out of its banks inside a city with more than a million inhabitants. Later the agency denied having said it. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – As Georgia’s capital was drenched in rain water, and a stream flooded a district, killing five, reports went out from the national emergency agency that what caused the disaster was that the river Mtkvari had burst its banks.

Mtkvari is the largest

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Teacher in Georgia fired for not loving Saakashvili

One of the teachers was fired because she didn't love Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Photo: Rusiko Machaidze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Teachers are suffering political discrimination in Georgia ahead of an important election.

Only in Shida Kartli, a region bordering on South Ossetia, 21 teachers were fired because their family members supported or were member of the largest

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Ivanishvili sells off his assets in Russia

Bidzina Ivanishvili was criticized by the Saakashvili regime for having too much a foothold in Russian business. “It will be interesting to see what they will say when I don’t have any relations with Russia any more,” he says. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Saakashvili’s main political opponent Bidzina Ivanishvili will sell all his property in Russia by the end of May.

The billionaire said this after it became public that his shares in companies in Russia were already sold. According to Forbes magazine,

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